Tag: eyes

“Every treatment we take on has risks. All of them. But, I keep choosing which risks to take, because I know what the darkness is like, and if it comes to that for me I will deal with it, but if I can keep putting it off, believe me, I will try.” A few…

In the beginning, one of the things that I didn’t understand was why I was being sent to a rheumatologist. After all, it was my eyes that were the problem not my joints. Since then, I have learned that uveitis is an inflammatory disease, and in my case, an autoimmune inflammatory disease, not unlike rheumatoid…

In a couple of weeks I will be headed back over the mountain to see the experts at Casey Eye Institute. The issue is my retinas. They’ve been swollen for about two years, and we can’t seem to find a medication that will work, or have any impact for that matter, for more than a…